North German cuisine

thumb|Hamburg-style Labskaus with fried egg, gherkin, sliced beetroot, and [[rollmops]] Labskaus () is a culinary speciality from northern Germany and in particular from the cities of Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck. The main ingredients are salted meat or corned beef, potatoes, and onion. Some recipes put beetroot, pickled gherkin, or even herring into it, while others have these ingredients as side dishes.

Rollmops () are pickled herring fillets, rolled into a cylindrical shape, often around a savoury filling.

sour wheat beer fermented with Brettanomyces yeast and lactobacteroides

Rødgrød (), rote Grütze (), or rode Grütt (), meaning "red groats", is a sweet berry pudding from Denmark and Northern Germany. The name of the dish in Danish features many of the elements that make Danish pronunciation difficult for non-native speakers, so , literally "red porridge with cream", has been a commonly used shibboleth since the early 1900s.

bread traditionally eaten around Easter

A Fischbrötchen () (pl. "Fischbrötchen", lit. 'fish bread roll') is a sandwich made with fish and other components such as fresh white or dried onions, pickles, remoulade, creamy horseradish sauce, ketchup, or cocktail sauce. It is commonly eaten in Northern Germany, due to the region's proximity to the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

thumb|Nordsee restaurant in Braunschweig, Germany

traditional German dish of pears, beans and bacon

thumb|Sliced pinkel thumb|Grünkohl with (sweet) [[roast potatoes, Pinkel, Kochwurst, Kassler, and bacon]] Pinkel is a smoked Kaszanka (), which is a type of sausage. It is eaten mainly in northwest Germany, especially the region around Oldenburg, Bremen and Osnabrück as well as in East Frisia and Friesland.

thumb|Grünkohl|Grünkohl dish with [[German fries, Pinkel, Kochwurst, Kassler, bacon and mustard]] Grünkohlessen (, ) is an old wintertime custom in North Germany, and parts of Scandinavia (Denmark and Scania), involving drinking, games, and a feast of regional dishes, typically featuring kale, potatoes, and sausages. It is practised in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surrounding districts of Osterholz, Diepholz, Verden and Rotenburg, in Oldenburg Land, the County of Bentheim, Emsland, Osnabrück Land and East Frisia, in the Middle Weser Region, and also in Hamburg, Cuxhaven, in the Ha

thumb|200px|Bregenwurst Bregenwurst (also Brägenwurst) is a German sausage variety commonly served in parts of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

thumb|A traditional and simple lunch in Hamburg: Brathering with fried potatoes

Butterkuchen or Zuckerkuchen is a simple German butter cake baked on a tray. Flakes of butter, which, after baking, form the characteristic holes, are distributed on the dough. The whole cake is sprinkled with sugar or streusel. After further kneading the Butterkuchen is baked. As a variation the dough can be sprinkled with roasted almond flakes.

thumb|Knipp, raw thumb|Knipp, warm on wholemeal bread thumb|A plate of pan-fried Knipp with apple sauce Knipp (; in the Hanover area: Calenberger Pfannenschlag) is a type of sausage made by mixing meat with grains (Grützwurst) related to Pinkel which comes from the Bremen and Lower Saxon regions of Germany.

regional cuisine

name for several types of sausages

regional cuisine

regional cuisine

culinary traditions of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Steckrübeneintopf () is a German dish that, today, is especially common in North Germany. It generally consists of a stew made from swede, carrots and potatoes in varying proportions and diverse, usually smoked or pickled, types of meat or sausage. Occasionally special cooking pears used as well. The stew may be seasoned and refined with salt, pepper, mustard, horseradish, celery, leeks or parsley, etc., according to taste.

Two-layered German pudding